The Washington Post: Md. Democrats to remember Sargent Shriver

By John Wagner -- August 29, 2012

When they gather in Charlotte, N.C. next week for their party’s national convention, Maryland Democrats plan to pay tribute to the late Sargent Shriver, the founder of the Peace Corps and architect of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty.”

Party officials say several elected officials at the luncheon will attest to the inspiration they continue to draw from Shriver, a native of Westminister, Md. who married into the Kennedy family and replaced Thomas Eagleton as the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1972.